Chapter 114

Li forgets that he hasn't recovered from the attack of being robbed by Cheng Yaojin's father and son at home. The bad news is coming again.

The next day, the old village hurried into Li's house: "Xiao Lang, big things are bad!"

Li forgot to worry and Su Changqing hurriedly welcomed them out: "old village, why are you so frightened?"

"Just now, the Secretary of the county government joined the army and asked someone to send me a letter, saying that it's my turn to adjust the clothes of Zhou Village in spring this year! It's not delaying the busy farming in spring." the old village's face turned red.

The registered residence is a official in charge of household registration, taxation, and warehousing.

Su Changqing didn't understand what Lao cunzheng meant. What is spring? He hurriedly looked at Li forgetful and waited for him to explain to himself.

"The Yong in the rent Yong tune is to serve the corvee. Because the time is uncertain, if you call the tune in spring, it's called the tune in spring." Li forgetful whispered in the ear of the beautiful boss.

Rent Yong regulation stipulates that each person needs to serve corvee for 20 days a year, which is normal service.

After explaining to Su Changqing, Li forgot to worry and looked at the old villager: "old villager, didn't Yang Ming's house promise to halve the rent this year? Why did he suddenly recruit corvee?"

The old village is taking a breath: "this time it's not Huxian county government that wants to recruit us, it's Chang'an County Government."

Li Qieyou immediately thought of the magistrate Cui of Chang'an County yesterday. Was he playing tricks?

Before he could ask, old Murakami told Li forgetful and Su Changqing a shocking news again.

After Li forget worry was removed from the name of Li's clan, he is now a white man and needs to serve corvee. He is one of the white men in the village who are transferred to serve corvee in the spring.

Li forgot to worry and looked silly: "but I'm not a middle-aged man!"

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that men over the age of 16 were middle-aged men and adults over the age of 21. However, Li Qieyou had just reached the age of 16. It is said that he was not middle-aged men and should not serve corvee.

The old village is shaking his head: "I don't know why. Your name is on the roster of corvee in the spring."

Li forgot to worry for a while, but shook his head: "then I'll take the silk as a substitute."

To accept silk as a substitute is to pay money. You can pay three feet of silk per day for twenty days. Li Qieyou is not short of this money now. Converting it into copper money is less than the usual money.

The old village is shaking his head again: "when the county secretary joined the army and asked someone to inform him, he said that everyone in our village needs to serve in the main service this time, and can't accept silk as a substitute."

This made Su Changqing look pale. Li forgets to worry that he is only 16 years old. How can he serve corvee?

In the mind of the beautiful boss, corvee is to do coolies, similar to the way Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall.

In fact, what she thought is not wrong. The content of corvee includes local civil engineering, building bridges and roads, managing rivers and canals, transferring water and grain, etc.

"Forget your worries, what should I do? How can you go to work as a corvee? Why don't you go to find county magistrate Yang? If you can't, go to ask Cheng Yaojin for help." Su Changqing was so anxious that he was almost crying.

Li Qieyou also thought that something was wrong. It seemed that there was something fishy in it.

"Don't worry, Changqing. I'll go to the county government office and ask Yang Ming's house first. What's going on?"

Su Changqing quickly nodded and asked him to inquire.

Before Li forgets to worry and leads his horse out, Yang Zuan himself looks angry and comes to the door.

"Ming mansion, you're here at the right time. Why do you have my share in this spring transfer? And it's not allowed to accept silk as a substitute?" Li forgets to worry. When he sees Yang Zuo, he quickly asks.

Yang Zuan said angrily, "Ziyou, I had a big quarrel with the Chang'an County secretary who joined the army for this matter. He did it on purpose! This bastard!"

"Why is this? I have never known Chang'an County's family to join the army. Why is he like this?" Li forgets worry and asks.

Yang Zuan said, "Chang'an County's family name is Li, do you understand?"

Li forgot to worry and patted on the forehead: "is he from Li's family in Huxian county?"

"Not bad! I don't know which bastard gave Huxian Li such an immoral idea. He included you in the list of middle-aged men. You must serve corvee."

Li forgot to worry: "don't Chinese men have to be over the age of 16?"

Yang Zui shook his head: "the Li family's household joined the army and said that you are 17 years old. You are a man."

Empty years? Li forgot his worries and was speechless. Is this age special? Can it be calculated like this? Sure enough, the official word is up and down, whatever he says.

The old village was carefully asking, "Ming House, I heard that we are going to transport grain this spring?"

Grain transportation means transferring grain to grain.

It's good that Lao Cun Zheng didn't mention this. He was even more angry when he mentioned Yang Zuo.

"Yes, that bastard arranged your 20 day corvee task, that is, transporting grain from Chang'an city to Yinzhou."

Li Qieyou didn't know where Yinzhou was. He inquired with Yang Zuo and estimated that it should be Mizhi, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. It's not too far. It's more than 400 kilometers. Later generations drive at a high speed, which is four hours.

Although the old village has never been to Yinzhou, he also knows the approximate distance. After a rough calculation, he is relieved: "it's OK. It's eight or nine hundred miles. The ox cart can arrive in about ten days, and twenty days is enough to go back and forth."

Yang Zuo snorted coldly, "do you know how much grain you let your village transport this time?"

His words made the old village a little stunned, and quickly asked, "Ming House? Didn't the grain transportation task always be about 200 stones in the past? Has it changed this time?"

Yang Zuan raised a finger directly.

"Add another hundred stones?"

"A thousand stones!"

After Yang Zuan's words, Lao Murakami sat on the ground and was stunned for a long time.

"Well, how can this be possible? A thousand stone grain? We decided that there were only 60 small households in Zhoucun this spring. How can we transport the grain of this thousand stone? Now it is the busy time of spring farming. If we really want to transport so much grain, the strong labor of the whole village must be mobilized. Is this going to kill us?" the old village is losing his way.

Li Qieyou was also stunned. For long-distance transportation, the ox cart can load up to 800 kg, that is, about 80 stones. A thousand stone grains need more than 100 ox carts to transport. Aren't you kidding?

If all the strong workers in the village go to work for corvee in the spring, won't the spring ploughing be over?

Huxian Li family, what a vicious plot!

This is because the villagers of Dingzhou village helped themselves yesterday. Did they come up with such a vicious means of revenge?

Li's anger also rose. I wish I could let people go to the hillside now and dig all Li's ancestral graves in Huxian County!

Yang Zuan looked at Li forgetting worry: "Ziyou, it seems that the only way to do this is to ask the Duke of Lu. Li lost his face yesterday and refused to give up."

"Mingfu, even you can't help it?"

Yang Zuan shook his head: "I had a big quarrel with the Secretary to join the army, but it was of no use. This is his duty, and I can't stop it."

"But he is avenging himself!"

"The county knows, but there is nothing to do." Yang Zuo sighed.

The beauty boss finally figured out what was going on, and hurriedly advised him, "forget your worries. You'd better go to Uncle Cheng to intercede. It's only for him."

Li forgot to worry and waved his hand: "wait, let me think about it first."